Internal structure of structurally stitched NCF preform

The paper addresses the experimental investigation of the unit cell architecture in a structurally stitched multilayer carbon-fibre preform. Each layer is a multiaxial multiply non-crimp fabric (NCF) knit with a non-structural stitching. The term “structural” presumes here that the stitching yarn does not only consolidate the plies (as the non-structural one does) but also forms a 3D reinforcement. One stitching technique — tufting — is studied, with 120 tex aramide yarn. The experimental data reveals a considerable irregularity of the piercing pattern and fibre distribution

The Educational Uses of the World: Experiential Learning and the Peace Corps

This is a paper written by Phillips Ruopp, who from 1963 to 1967 he served as the first dean of the College of the Virgin Islands, where he worked with the Virgin Islands Peace Corps Training Center in developing methods of cross-cultural community involvement training and afterwards was the Director of the Peace Corps\u27 Division of Institutional Relations. -- [p.2] In this paper Ruopp discusses education through experiences and so in the frame of global community and service. He puts forth the argument that there are uses of the \u27world\u27 for purposes which are educational, but in neither an amorphous nor a purely technical sense. The uses I have in mind are a necessary part of a community of learning\u27s traffic with reality [p.3]. In several sections, he discusses various modes of understanding education and his opinion of theoretical versus experiential education. One of these sections discusses the ideas of Dr. Arthur E. Morgan. He also touches upon theories of community service as a method of education and where the Peace Corps fits into education. Ruopp ends with a conclusion on the importance of education through development service, community interaction, and social relations

An Exploration of Effective Patient Education with an Emphasis on Concussion

Concussion is a prevalent healthcare issue in the US, with approximately 1.6-3.8 million sports and recreation-related concussions each year in all ages. A concussion can be defined as a traumatic brain injury caused by biomechanical forces. When an athlete sustains a concussion, a physiologic cascade of events occurs. The most common signs and symptoms of a concussion include: loss of balance, disorientation, headache and confusion. Concussion assessments are important in order to determine the presence of an impairment and there are a multitude of tests that clinicians can use in order to isolate each type of damage. Studies have shown that behavioral regulation and active treatment are key components to a fast and successful recovery from a concussion. Data regarding patient education in specialty clinics, such as those focused on concussion, is limited. This is a concern due to the need for education both prior to the injury and after the concussion is diagnosed. Health education, also known as patient education, refers to the process of providing information to individuals and allowing them to make knowledgeable decisions regarding their healthcare. In order to maximize the effectiveness of health education, professionals should be aware that the delivery of the information should be tailored to the learning preferences of each individual patient. Finding ways to overcome the disconnect in knowledge transfer between healthcare professionals and patients is essential for better treatment outcomes. Since limited time with the provider is shown to be the most significant barrier to quality patient education, utilizing time spent in the waiting room is essential to overcome this

The Art of Reflection

This writing shares a course designed to reconnect middle school students to the natural world. In reconnecting to nature while IN nature students are afforded the opportunity for deep reflection, and the space to wonder and realize the inter-connectivity between things. We highlight transformational thinking and feeling awareness as students’ connection with nature is expressed though art and writing while deeply immersed in the natural environment

Studies on steel-to-concrete joints with concentrated loading conditions

In mixed buildings of steel and concrete an economical design depends on intelligent solutions for steel‐to‐concrete joints. The design and verification of steel‐to‐concrete joints is challenging, as the structural behaviour and the properties of different materials have to be considered. Large forces often have to be transferred in localized areas, e.g. bridge bearings, and various failure modes of steel and concrete may occur in the joints due to load concentrations. An imposed load preventing uplift and a well‐placed reinforcement can strengthen these joints decisively. In this contribution, experimental and numerical investigations and recent approaches for the design of steel‐to‐concrete joints are presented in order to extend and harmonise current rules leading to new chances of optimisation

The role of left ventricular deformation in the assessment of microvascular obstruction and intramyocardial haemorrhage

In the setting of acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), it remains unclear which strain parameter most strongly correlates with microvascular obstruction (MVO) or intramyocardial haemorrhage (IMH). We aimed to investigate the association of MVO, IMH and convalescent left ventricular (LV) remodelling with strain parameters measured with cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR). Forty-three patients with reperfused STEMI and 10 age and gender matched healthy controls underwent CMR within 3-days and at 3-months following reperfused STEMI. Cine, T2-weighted, T2*-imaging and late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) imaging were performed. Infarct size, MVO and IMH were quantified. Peak global longitudinal strain (GLS), global radial strain (GRS), global circumferential strain (GCS) and their strain rates were derived by feature tracking analysis of LV short-axis, 4-chamber and 2-chamber cines. All 43 patients and ten controls completed the baseline scan and 34 patients completed 3-month scans. In multivariate regression, GLS demonstrated the strongest association with MVO or IMH (beta = 0.53, p 20%). Baseline GLS also demonstrated the strongest diagnostic performance in predicting adverse LV remodelling (AUC = 0.79; 95% CI 0.60–0.98; p = 0.03). Post-reperfused STEMI, baseline GLS was most closely associated with the presence of MVO or IMH. Baseline GLS was more strongly associated with adverse LV remodelling than other CMR parameters

Where do the elderly die? The impact of nursing home utilisation on the place of death. Observations from a mortality cohort study in Flanders

BACKGROUND: Most of the research concerning place of death focuses on terminally ill patients (cancer patients) while the determinants of place of death of the elderly of the general population are not intensively studied. Studies showed the influence of gender, age, social-economical status and living arrangements on the place of death, but a facet not taken into account so far is the influence of the availability of nursing homes. METHODS: We conducted a survey of deaths, between January 1999 and December 2000 in a small densely populated area in Belgium, with a high availability of nursing homes (within 5 to 10 km of the place of residence of every elderly). We determined the incidence of total mortality (of subjects >60 years) from local official death registers that we consulted via the priest or the mortician of the local parish, to ask where the decedent had died and whether the deceased had lived in a nursing home. We compared the distribution of the places of death between parishes with a nursing home and with parishes without nursing home. RESULTS: 240 women and 217 men died during the two years study period. Only 22% died at home, while the majority (78%) died in an institutional setting, either a hospital (50%) or a nursing home (28%). Place of death was influenced by individual factors (age and gender) and the availability of a nursing home in the 'own' parish. The chance of in-hospital death was 65% higher for men (95% Confidence Interval [CI]: 14 to 138%; p = 0.008) and decreased by 4% (CI: -5.1% to -2.5%; p < 0.0001) for each year increase in age. Independent of gender and age, the chance of in-hospital death was 41% (CI: -60% to -13%; p = 0.008) lower in locations with a nursing home. CONCLUSION: Demographic, but especially social-contextual factors determine where elderly will end their life. The majority of elderly in Flanders die in an institution. Age, gender and living situation are predictors of the place of death but the embedment of a nursing home in the local community seems to be a key predictor

Performance comparison of CFD microbenchmarks on diverse HPC architectures

OpenFOAM is a CFD software widely used in both industry and academia. The exaFOAM project aims at enhancing the HPC scalability of OpenFOAM, while identifying its current bottlenecks and proposing ways to overcome them. For the assessment of the software components and the code profiling during the code development, lightweight but significant benchmarks should be used. The answer was to develop microbenchmarks, with a small memory footprint and short runtime. The name microbenchmark does not mean that they have been prepared to be the smallest possible test cases, as they have been developed to fit in a compute node, which usually has dozens of compute cores. The microbenchmarks cover a broad band of applications: incompressible and compressible flow, combustion, viscoelastic flow and adjoint optimization. All benchmarks are part of the OpenFOAM HPC Technical Committee repository and are fully accessible. The performance using HPC systems with Intel and AMD processors (x86_64 architecture) and Arm processors (aarch64 architecture) have been benchmarked. For the workloads in this study, the mean performance with the AMD CPU is 62% higher than with Arm and 42% higher than with Intel. The AMD processor seems particularly suited resulting in an overall shorter time-to-solution.This work is carried out in the scope of the exaFOAM project, which has received funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreements No. 16HPC022K and No. 956416, respectively. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Greece, and Portugal.German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU

Supporting Science Teacher Learning: The Role of Educative Curriculum Materials

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43135/1/10972_2004_Article_5095704.pd

Modern MT: A New Open-Source Machine Translation Platform for the Translation Industry

Modern MT (www.modernmt.eu) is a three-year Horizon 2020 innovation action (2015–2017) to develop new open-source machine translation technology for use in translation production environments, both fully automatic and as a back-end in interactive post-editing scenarios. Led by Translated srl, the project consortium also includes the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), the University of Edinburgh, and TAUS B.V. Modern MT has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 645487 (call ICT-17-2014)